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MARTIN VANDAS, producer

Martin Vandas graduated in 2000 from the Carlo University in Prague, Deprtment of Film Science. He also has another degree - Film and TV Production, acquired at the FAMU.
From 1999 to 2002, he produced several TV documentaries and series. A significant turning point in his career came in 2002, when he was engaged in the project Fimfarum by Jana Werich, a puppet animated film directed by Aurel Klimta and Vlasta Pospišilova. In 2006, Vandas went on to produce the second part of the Fimfarum saga in 2006, where Bretislav Pojar and Jan Balej joined the original team of directors. Finally, in 2007, came the excellent One Night in a City - a mutual project of Martin Vandas and Jan Balej.
The new projects that Vandas is involved with include Fimfarum 3 - Third Time Lucky, the final part of the triptych based on a book by J. Werich, Little Fish Girl (inspired by the H. K. Andersen's fairytale Little Mermaid) and Eleven, a road-movie about a famous soccer family.

   

DANKO JEŠIĆ, screenplay writer and film producer

Danko Ješić was born in Belgrade in 1970.
He is the author of a number of expert papers in the domain of film and media, as well as the author of numerous film scenarios for short TV and theatre formats. Apart from this, he wrote several dozen radio dramas. Danko has produced a number of short feature films, documentaries and animated films, together with dozens of music spots and commercials. One of the two feature-length films that he produced, 'As Young and Fresh as a Rose' (Mlad i zdrav kao ruža) has gained a reputation of a cult movie.
Danko wrote three books on comics: 'Film and Comic Strips 1', 'Film and Comic Strips 2', and 'Do Comic Strips Spoil your Children?'.
In his career so far, he has translated over 35 published books from various areas and he has appeared as a film, comic art and TV critic working for over 20 different media houses including 'Mc Guffin', 'Politika ekspres', 'Glas javnosti... He is currently working as a comic art critic for the 'Politika' daily newspaper. His other engagements include the position of the editor in the Belgrade-based publishing house 'IPS Media', and the numerous participations in domestic and international film festivals, where he appears as a member of the jury.

   

JANNES HENDRIKZ, director

Compositor and Creative Director for artistic group The Blackheart Gang based in Cape Town, South Africa.Jannes started working as a professional compositor at a post-production company in Cape Town called Refinery working on VFX TV commercials. The environment offered many opportunities that lead to the making of Ringo, Blackheart Gang's first film. Jannes then moved to a company called Blackginger working on many international commercials offering him great technical experience and enough knowledge to start the next big challenge, The Tale of How.
With all its successes, Tale of How proved that artistic integrity still exists in our world today and it was decided that working for other people and executing their ideas was now a senseless thing to continue. So Jannes quit Blackginger to start his own company with Ree called Shy the Sun. They co-direct commercials, and Shy the Sun is sighned up with Duck Studios in America and with Passion Pictures in Europe who represent them as TVC directors.
 

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SAŠA RADOJEVIĆ, scriptwriter and director

Author of scenarios for documentary TV series and short films by Goran Gajić "U vrtlogu strasti" (In the Whirl of Passion) and "Sedmi dan" (Seventh Day). Author of a book about film, "Mit o Frankenštajnu" (The Myth of Frankenstein - 1991) and collections of works titled "Džon Vu: od Hong Konga do Holivuda" (John Vu: From Hong Kong to New York, 1996) and "Nova filmska Evropa" (New European Film, 1999). Co-author of film magazines "Svetlo u tami" (Light in the Darkness - 1991, 1994, 2003), "Vojislav Nanović: poslednji pionir" (Vojislav Nanović, The Last Pioneer, 1993), "Kad budem mrtav i beo" (When I am Dead and Pale, 1997) and "Želimir Žilnik: iznad crvene prašine" Želimir Žilnik: Above the Red Dust, 2003). In 2002, he published a novel, "Divlje senke" (Wild Shadows).
Worked as the assistant director to Teo Angelopulos (Theo Angelopulos) in the making of the "Odisejev pogled" film (Odyssey's View, 1995). Collaborated in screen-play production for feature films by Milutin Petrović "Zemlja istine, ljubavi i slobode"(The Land of Truth, Love and Freedom, 2000) and "Jug jugoistok" (South, Southeast, 2005) and the director and screen-play writer of the feature film "Poljupci" (Kisses, 2004), and the video entitled "Moje telo ne poznaje mene" (My body does not recognise me, 2004).
As a member of the Fipresci Jury, he participated in a number of international and national film festivals.

 



 

BORISLAV STANOJEVIĆ, director and film critic

Born in Belgrade in 1953, he graduated from the Faculty of Drama Art in Belgrade, Department of film and TV production, and also from the Music Academy in Bucharest, Department of Music Theory and Composition. From 1976, he had been engaged in a diverse range of artistic activities and research in radio, television and film, and between 1983 and 1988, he worked as a producer and multimedia author for the National Television in Belgrade.
From 1988, he worked as a film archivist in the Yugoslav Film Archive - the Kinoteka (in the department for international cooperation, the silent, avant-garde and animated film, and soundtracks); in this period, he was the initiator of the museum and creative laboratory for the film music and sound, as well as a wide research in the area of the history of film music in Serbia. Since 1997, he has been the manager of the Yugoslav Film Archive library.
During 1997/1998, he was the art editor of the 'Virtual' magazine and a member of the editorial team of the 'Filmograf' magazine, the weekly supplement of the 'Danas' daily paper, the correspondent of the 'Politika' newspaper in the field of film criticism, classical and digital animation and comics ...
Borislav is also engaged at the position of a programmer in the Digital Media Studio 'Vlada Petrić', existing within the Yugoslav Film Archive Museum.
 




 

IVICA STEVANOVIĆ, Illustrator

Born in Niš in 1977, he graduated from the High School of Arts. He continued his academic training at the Art Academy in Novi Sad. After graduating from the Department of Graphic Communication in 2000, he acquired his MA degree in 2004, with the thesis in the form of A Lexicon of Art Legions - an imaginary illustrated encyclopaedia. From 2000, he had been engaged as an assistant lecturer at the Book Graphics course, at the Art Academy in Novi Sad, before he acquired the title and the position of the assistant professor. At present, Ivica is a lecturer of the Book Graphics and has been working on the initiation of an official design and art magazine of the Art Academy where he is based.
His graphic novels, characterised by the new determination in their visual form, define him as an untypical author. The impression is confirmed by the significant graphic works, (produced in collaboration with Zoran Penevski, the script writer) The Kind Corpses (Ljubazni leševi), SKC, Novi Sad, 2004; A Lexicon of Art Legions (Leksikon Likovnih Legija), SKC Novi Sad, 2005; Anatomy of the Sky (L'Anatomie du ciel), Les Humanoides Associes, 2006, a comic-book album that was nominated for the best work in this category in 2006, at the French literary salon POLAR&CO. Thae latest work and Katil (Everest media, 2007), along with Niš-based journalist and writer Branislav Miltojević.
At the moment, he is working together with Penevski at a new graphic novel, Kuća mrtvih ptica (Dead Birds House). Ivica is the winner of a number of awards for design, illustration, caricature and comic books art.
 

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